The Nigerien Association for Sustainable Development, or ANDD Garkua

Oasis basins threatened with silting up.

RFI / Sayouba Traoré

By: Sayouba Traoré

3 min

Niger has been facing, since the drought of 1973, an advanced degradation of its environment.

This exposes the country to a precarious food situation, and the worsening of great poverty in rural areas.

The action of the NGO Garkua is a distribution of food for environmental rehabilitation works.

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Due to chronic food insecurity and infectious diseases, Niger's malnutrition and death rates are among the highest in the world.

More than 40% of children under five are chronically malnourished, and rates of acute malnutrition are well above the severity threshold of 10% set by the WHO.

Water recovery basin (BCR).

ANDD-Garkua Niger

We understand that there is an emergency, which consists in preserving the little that remains.

Desertification and environmental degradation hamper the socio-economic development of the country.

An example, 91% of household energy comes from wood.

This amounts to accentuating deforestation, when the situation is already difficult.

Sorghum field saved by BCR.

ANDD-Garkua Niger

Guest:

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 Chairman of the Board of Directors of the NGO ANDD Garkua in Niger.

Production: Sayouba Traoré

Improved sorghum production.

ANDD-Garkua Niger

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